Koru - Maori term for new fern - new life, growth, strength & peace.
February 13,'09 - first stop Sydney - view from Vaughan & Kerry's house.
Sydney beaches - in the rain!
Pollocks' house - Wellington
Pollocks on Victoria Hill
Craig
Wellington
Saltoun Beach
Jamie & Craig
Wellington from Pollocks
Arrive in Queenstown & ready to jet boat - ? a nice ride on the river!!
Off we go!
Not such a gentle ride on the river - I was had!!
I survived
Decided not to bungy jump!
Picnic at Wanaka with Lesley, Don, Janet & Gavin
Lake Wanaka
Lake Hawea
Picking up water to scale cliffs
Waiting for the helicopter to finish
Lunch in Queenstown
SS Earnshaw on Lake Wakatipu
Sheep station on Lake Wakatipu
Lake Wakatipu
Stealing plums!! They're free!!
Janet & Gavin's garden in Cromwell
House in Cromwell
Carrick Winery
Lunch at Carrick Winery
Just like the Okanagon wineries!
Bit out of place!
What a sign!!
Time to cut hair!
Moraki Boulders - east coast South Island - in pouring rain
Lesley & Don at the Boulders
The road to Timaru!
Clearing the culverts
The golf course!
Janet & Gavin's house Timaru
Agapanthus everywhere!
Janet's rooster & chickens
What New Zealand is famous for! - some white!
Some black!
Some half & half!
Some with curly horns! - Gavin's Dorsets!
Being herded!
We want out to herd too!
Lunch by the River Avon in Christchurch
Flower display in the Avon River
Christchurch art gallery
Sumner beach - ouside Christchurch
Sumner beach
Cliffs above Sumner
Looking down on Sumner
Craig & the school mural
Ferry from Wellington to Picton
South of North Island
From the ferry to Picton
Ferry
Nelson
Nelson Cathedral
Cafe Affair - cooking on a hot stone - great food
The start of the trip!
Leaving from Awaroa in Abel Tasman after water taxi dropped us off
Water taxi
Awaroa Beach
Friendly dolphin!
First day - not the best weather!
Shag Harbour
Michelle, Stefan & Adrian
Pied shag
New Zealand fur seal pups
NZ fur seals
Quetahuti Beach - first campsite
Quetahuti Beach
Brave Ailsa - it was a bit cool!
Blue lipped mussels
Glow worm and weta cave! Cave wetas are horrid creepy crawlies!
Campsite - novel use for paddles!
Our tent
Caroline's 30th birthday
Getting ready to go next morning - like the skirt?!
Still smiling!!
Mosquito Bay
Sandfly Bay
The adventurers!!
The intrepid guide!
nesting pied shag
Lunch time
How about these tattoos!!
Anchorage campsite
Anchorage Beach
Still a bit chilly but we all swam!
Dinner time!
Squahing everything back in!
A stop to hike up and look at the view
Looking back to Anchorage Bay
Looking back to where we camped
The way to go home
Can we get through>
Think so!
We all made it!
This is more like the brochures!
All back to base!
Father & son!
On the Wii!
Paraparaumu Beach
Here we all are!
Waiting for waves!
Leaping logs
Long jump
At Paraparaumu Beach
At Japanese dinner
Caught it!
Missed??
Wellington from Pollocks' house
The Beehive - parliament buildings - Wellington
Civic Square
Looking toward museum - Te Papa
The Haka after an all day school atheletics competion
Opposing team's Haka
A very enthousiastic Haka!
Ailsa, me & Heather Gunn ( last saw her when I was 5)
Art at TePapa
Modern Mauri meeting house in Te Papa
Window of meeting house
Detail of wall
Craig coming third in speech competition
Well done, Craig
Vynfields Winery, Martinborough, Wairarapa
Tasting!
Cheers!
Roses at the ends of the rows of vines to deter bugs
Lunch at Alana winery
Carterton in Wairarapa
A local!
Cabbage trees
Serious business!
Paua shell on the beach at Eastbourne
Cafe chair
Tree fern
Pier jumping, Eastbourne
Lunch atKarori Wildlife Sanctuary
Kaka
Tui
The tower in Karori
Fantail
Tuatara!
Mushroom
Marjory's sister Sheila and friend Anne
Jamie drying off prior to biking in the triathalon
Off he goes
Luke - shoes on ready to bicycle
Jamie's back
Luke's back
Off for the run
Jamie finishing
Luke finishing
Jamie, Luke and Ally at the triathalon
Supplying suntan lotion to the crowd!
I had to leave to fly home before Craig's triatholon!
Spirit of New Zealand in Auckland
Back to Vancouver!!
